So I am happy to have fans, especially if it enables me to keep working. And I am really grateful when people respond to my work.

I tend to gravitate toward the more powerful roles. As opposed to the doe-eyed girl who bats her eyelashes and runs around in towels, you now what I mean? Because that kind of makes me want to vomit.

Theater makes working in movies or TV seem like a cake-walk.

When Paul [Greengrass] was writing, he'd send me story ideas that he had. He was particularly interested in social movements and revolutions that had been happening all over the world, and how computers and the internet had helped those movements. He encouraged me to read a book about Anonymous, the hacker group called "white hat" hackers, meaning they're driven by ideology and social disruption as opposed to just greed.

Make yourself useful, not just on a day to day basis, but as a lifetime thing.

There are a handful of actors who sustain interest because it's exciting to watch them get better at what they do. I want to be one of those actors.

I like a director that encourages me to be playful. I don't really like being restricted or controlled by a director.